Opening Season for the Maulers

Today is exciting for me. It is opening of the Season for the Maulers. We have three games today. From the practice from the other night we were not looking too awesome. We are still working to get to our mid-season form. I slept in a little better than yesterday. But I think the work on the bathroom woke me up again.

I helped to get the new bathroom cabinet upstairs. Then I started to get my uniform ready for softball. I decided to do something I have not done in YEARS. That was not wear my Philosophy shirt under my uniform. I did not wear it for two reasons. One I have been having a bad softball season with the IM’s. Two is because under my new uniform it would be visible with all the holes in it because my new uniform has micronetting type stuff so it is cooler, but it is more or less see through.

I got to the field and got my batting bag. It is heavier than I remember. I lugged it to the playing area and got my cleats on. We did some team warm ups and stretching. Then we started to throw the ball and hit the ball. Our first game was against a new team. They beat us seven to eleven. They were getting free-outs. It was not good. One inning we should have had three outs in three batters, but instead they scored several runs on us. Our hitting was not great either. I hit clean-up for the team and I think I got two at bats.

We had an hour off. I watched a couple teams in our league. Neither team had a pitcher who could get the ball across the plate. While I was watching the game Mike called me. He said they need a pitcher for his sisters team. That is the same team that Gary is on I believe.

In the next two games I did a lot better than the first game. I pitched a few innings and played first base in other innings. I was hitting the ball well. I had one ball that I crushed to deep left field. Somehow the left fielder ran that ball down and at the last minute just stuck his glove in the air. The ball just fell into his glove.

We ended up winning the last two games, so we are two and one on the season. I went home with an ankle that was a little bit on the sore side. I decided that I was not going to go back to Colfax tonight because there was no fire training in Pullman and I wanted to sleep in a little bit and stay up late tonight.

I got home at dinner time. I ate dinner and helped to clean up. Then I watched TV for most of the rest of the evening letting my ankle recover from the day of fun.